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Cadge   Listen
verb
Cadge  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. cadged; pres. part. cadging)  
1.
To carry, as a burden. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
2.
To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. (Prov.)
3.
To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. (Prov. or Slang, Eng.)


noun
Cadge  n.  (Hawking) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.





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"Cadge" Quotes from Famous Books



... of September at ten o'clock we set sail, and coasted the shore with very fair weather. The third day being calm, at noon we struck sail, and let fall a cadge anchor to prove whether we could take any fish, being in latitude 54 degrees 30 minutes, in which place we found great abundance of cod, so that the hook was no sooner overboard but presently a fish was taken. It was the largest and best refet fish that ever I saw, and divers fishermen that were ...
— Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage • Richard Hakluyt
... sport of the day. Perhaps a dozen horses stood tethered at the entrance to the little court, with a man or two to look after them, for the greater part of their riders were already within; and a continual coming and going of lads with dogs; falconers each with his cadge, or three-sided frame on which sat the hawks; a barking of hounds, a screaming of birds, a clatter of voices and footsteps in the court—all this showed that the boy was none too early. A man stepped forward to take his mare and his hawks; and Robin slipped from his saddle ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson
... admirers; they only cadge for reviews. Time was, they say, when critics were bribed. Ha! ha! Now they all expect to be praised for nothing. And the parcels of books they send." Here I noticed a London Parcels Delivery van, laden with brown-paper ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892 • Various
... said certain sniggering old women to whom this was told, 'she'll not find so soft a lap at Gurdun!' But others said, 'Gurdun is the Duke's, and will one day be the Duke's son's. What will Sieur Gilles do then with his straining wife? You cannot keep your hawk on the cadge for ever—ah, nor hood her for ever!' And ...
— The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay • Maurice Hewlett
... the weather takes a turn. No, Dolly said that as the spare room was occupied, would I mind getting a shake-down at the Red Lion. So I did, and as I've got nothing to smoke, may I cadge ...
— Dolly Reforming Herself - A Comedy in Four Acts • Henry Arthur Jones
... for squalls. All off for a drink. Arm in arm. Lenehan's yachting cap on the cadge beyond. Usual blarney. Wonder is that young Dedalus the moving spirit. Has a good pair of boots on him today. Last time I saw him he had his heels on view. Been walking in muck somewhere. Careless chap. What was he doing ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


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